NATO Gets Blamed as Libyan Rebels Flee Assault by Qaddafi Forces - by Patrick Donahue and Alaric Nightingale

Libyan rebels retreated under heavy fire from the central oil port of Brega, prompting their top commander to lash out at NATO for not doing enough to stop artillery attacks by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is slow “in responding to our instructions” on targets and is failing to ‘give us what we need,’’ said Abdel Fattah Younes, head of the rebel army and Qaddafi’s former interior minister. He was particularly critical of the alliance for failing to stop Qaddafi’s weeks-long siege of Misrata, the rebel-held city near Tripoli that has been the scene of the most protracted attacks on civilians.

“We’re disappointed in NATO,” said Younes, speaking at a press conference in Benghazi broadcast on al-Jazeera.


Note EU-Digest: it is quite alarming if the combined force of the NATO has not been able to eliminate Gaddafi's army attacks during the past two weeks, unless in reality they have not been trying to do so. That by itself would be even more alarming.


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